Guardiola said: “You never know. It's like a watermelon. You have to open and see it. The prospect was good, a young player with good talent.

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“He's so aggressive. He wants to be a good player, and that helps a lot. He has dreams about what he wants to do in his future career. He wants to become something in world football, and we're going to try and get it for us.”

Jesus, 19, also provided an assist for Kevin de Bruyne to score City’s first goal after 17 minutes.

Skipper David Silva and Yaya Toure scored from the penalty spot in front of watching Chelsea boss Antonio Conte.

But Guardiola insists his team still needs a miracle to win the title as they trail the Premier League leaders by ten points.

Guardiola said: “Conte doesn't have to be too worried about what he saw today. Only Chelsea can lose the Premier League.

Jesus started to payback some of the £28.6m City spent to recruit home

Hammers boss Slaven Bilic said: “It's hard to find positive things from this game. It was well deserved for City, we have to give them credit. But we helped them. It sounds crazy but we started well and didn't have that many problems when they had the ball.

“But when we had the ball, before the first and the third goals, instead of using the space behind their high line we tried to play square balls.

"Sometimes you get away with that playing against teams of less quality, but if you do that against them, players like Silva and De Bruyne, seeing your team split in two and open. Players like Sane, Jesus and Sterling punish you with their pace. That's what happened.”